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Category: Personal Stories
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Published: Sunday, 22 May 2011 12:02
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Written by Lisa Wilder
Stuttering and Big Cats DVD
The title of this DVD, Stuttering and the Big Cats, might make you think it is the field notes of some imaginative researcher who believes he has found a pride of lions with "roaring impetiments". However, that is not what it is about at all.
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Category: Personal Stories
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Published: Sunday, 27 March 2011 10:45
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Written by Carla Di Domenicantonio
This article was originally published in the Winter 2011 issue of CSAVoices.
Mike Hughes
I reacted with numbing sadness and disbelief when news arrived that Mike Hughes had passed away on September 22nd, 2010.
Over many years, Mike had been a friend, a supporter and a mentor. We were linked by a common interest in stuttering.
For 22 years Mike Hughes was the Executive Director of Speak Easy Canada Inc., Canada’s first, charitable organization for people who stutter, which he founded in 1984. Based in Saint John, New Brunswick, Mike was already involved in helping those who, like him, stuttered.
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Category: Personal Stories
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Published: Friday, 30 April 2010 17:14
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Written by Scott Kerby
Scott Kerby
This article was originally published in the Spring 2009 issue of the CSA Newslettert
When I think of my chosen profession, and how it came to be, I see that being a person with a mild to severe stutter has played an important role in defining who I am and what I chose to do as an occupation. For the past twelve years, I have been teaching in the public school system, and currently, I’m a Special Education teacher at F.H. Collins high school in Whitehorse, Yukon. Before that, I was involved in instructing outdoor education and leadership programs based out of Toronto.
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Marvin Klotz (photo credit: Ali Salem)
The King’s Speech has won many awards and revived interest in the phenomenon of “stuttering” (“stammering is the British and supposedly, gentler terminology). Hard as it is to believe, I was not always the slim, agile, silver tongued, long haired role model you have always known and admired. At one time, I couldn’t even say hello on the telephone let alone call strangers – yes I was/am a “stutterer”.
